Summary: Senior Audio Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) with 8+ years of experience in Generative AI. Core contributor to Amazon Nova 2, architecting the complete end-to-end audio pipeline. Spearheaded audio/music generation initiatives, covering the full stack from audio understanding encoders and neural codecs to their integration into Multimodal LLMs. Currently contributing to TTS advancements for large-scale models. Proven ability to bridge research and product, built on a strong foundation of deploying efficient on-device models at Qualcomm AI Research.

PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

Please refer to Publications & Patents page.

Honors

Alexa Perceptual Technology Award Q3/Q4 2023, Recognized for contribution to Large Language Models that raise the functional bar. Awarded by Amazon in Feb 2024.

Byeonggeun Kim

Challenge Winner, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Challenge, DCASE Challenge, 2021 [Results]

Byeonggeun Kim, Seunghan Yang, Jangho Kim, Simyung Chang

Academic Services

Area Chair: ICASSP (2026)
Session Chair: INTERSPEECH (2022)

Reviewer: INTERSPEECH (2023-2025), ICASSP (2023-2026), CVPR (2024-2026), ICCV (2025), WACV (2025, 2026), ACL (2025), AAAI (2025-2026), EMNLP (2025),

Invited Talk:

• Efficient and High Fidelity Text-to-Audio Generation: From Parallel Decoding to Causal Streaming @ Yale University (CS Seminar CPSC 7760), Feb 19, 2026

• Autoregressive text-to-audio generation approaches @ Amazon Media & Entertainment ML (+AI) Summit, Sep 30, 2025

EDUCATION

M.S. Feb 2016 - Feb 2018

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Electrical Engineering

Dissertion: Knowledge base completion with translation based embeddings and negative sampling method

Advisor: Soo-Young Lee

B.S. Feb 2009 - Feb 2016

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Electrical Engineering

Double major in Business

Mandatory Military Service

Sergeant Jun 2010 - Mar 2012

Korea Augmentation To the Unitied States Army (KATUSA)

High School. Mar, 2006 - Feb, 2009

Korea Science Academy of KAIST (KSA)